Improvement in machines for cutting tobacco



UNITEDL STATES PATENT OFFICE..

HERBERT A. MORSE, OE CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47.742, dated May 16,1865.

To @,Z whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERTA. Monsn, of Canton, in the county of Norfolkand State of Massachusetts, have .invented an Improved Machine forCutting Tobacco; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully describedin the following specification and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, of which- Figure lis a top view, Fig. 2 afront ele` `vation,Fig'. 3 a horizontal section, Fig. 4 a vertical section, and Fig. 5 alongitudinal section, of it.

In the drawings, A denotes a guideframe consisting of a bed-plate, c,and two posts, b b', projecting upward therefrom and inclined thereto,and arranged parallel to one another, as represented, such posts beingconnected by means of an arched or curved bar, c, arranged aside ofthetwo posts, and a lever, B. At the upper part of the inner side of thefront part., b, there is a rack or arrangement of teeth, d d, &c., whichengage with a toothed sector, e, projecting from the said lever B.V

The fnlcrum ofthe lever is shown at f, it serving to connect to thelevera cuttingknife, C, and aguide-bar, D, which are arranged onopposite sides of the posts of the guide-frame A, as well as on,opposite sides of the lever. The guidebar has guides or projections g gextending from it, and between and against the two parts of the frame A,the knife being fastened to such projections by screws h It. A

p third projection, t', may also extend from the guide-bar and in frontof and against the front part, b. Furthermore, underneath the knifethere is a bar, E, of soft metal, which is held in place by a clamp-bar,F, fastened to the frame A,`and having an abutment, k, raised andarranged on it and aside of and above the bar E in manner as shown inthe drawings. By raising the lever B the knife will `be drawn upward,and while rising will be moved backward. On depressing the lever theknife will be forced downward, and will cut with a draw-- ing stroke apiece of tobacco when resting on the bed-plate and against the abutment7c of the clamp-bar F.

My present invention is an improvement with reference to thetobacco-cutter represented in Letters Patent No.82,640, granted J une25, 1861, to myself and Henry U. Morse, f

as by means of it I am enabled to dispense with much of the mechanismcontained therein, and thereby to greatly simplify the machine andrender it more easily operated and less expensive in construction. i

I claim as my invention- The combination of the single guide-frame A,guidebar D, and its projections or guides, with the knife C, the leverB, the toothed sector c, and the rack d, the whole being substantiallyas specied.

HERBERT A. MORSE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. l?. HALE, J r.

